Application & Requirements
Students must meet all established university admissions standards as described in the online undergraduate catalog. Read more about applying to UMass Lowell on the admissions site.
Students are admitted through the existing programs in the Computer Science, Biological Sciences, Chemistry or Mathematics & Statistics departments and fulfill requirements in their major area of study. In addition, the student will receive an option in bio-cheminformatics.
The courses required to complete the Computer Science major with a Bio-Cheminformatics option are shown on the degree pathway.
For specific department information, go to the Computer Science website.
Students from a variety of departments may take electives from a set of common core courses:
Computer Science
- Database Schema, Integration and Query Systems
- Computer Languages
- Database Integration
- Data Visualization
- Radical Design
- Data Mining and Machine Learning
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Graphics
- Computer Human Interaction
- Network and Data Security
- Parallel and High-Performance Computing
Students are admitted through the existing program in the Biological Sciences Department and fulfill its requirements as their major area of study. In addition, the student will receive an option in Bioinformatics. The courses required to complete a major in Biological Sciences with a Bioinformatics option are shown on the Biological Science Curriculum.
For specific department information, go to the Biological Science website.
Students from a variety of departments may take electives from a set of common core courses:
Biology
- Microbiology
- Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
- Gene Expression Technology
- Virology and Immunology
- Biochemistry
- Biosensor Technology